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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Type locality: off Cabo de Santa Marta Grande, s. Brazil, 27°25'S, 47°05'W (Ref. 46206).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.), 2003
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Common names from other countries

Kreffti süvaakurai, Narcina Kreftova, ... more

Classificação / Names Nomes comuns | Sinônimos | Catalog of Fishes(Gênero, Espécies) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Elasmobranchii (tubarões e raias) (sharks and rays) > Torpediniformes (Electric rays) > Narcinidae (Numbfishes)
Etymology: Benthobatis: Greek, benthos = depth of the sea + Greek, batis, -idos = a ray (Raja sp.) (Ref. 45335).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

marinhas batidemersal; intervalo de profundidade 420 - 527 m (Ref. 57911). Deep-water; 20°S - 45°S, 55°W - 40°W (Ref. 57911)

Distribuição Países | Áreas da FAO | Ecossistemas | Ocorrências | Point map | Introduções | Faunafri

Southwest Atlantic: off southern Brazil.

Tamanho / Peso / Idade

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 30.0 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 57911)

Deep water species on the continental slope. Feeds on worms, isopods and amphipods. The late-term embryos seem to gestate in a combined uterine/cloacal chamber. Produces up to 2 pups during each pregnancy. Maturity size of males at ca. 15 cm TL, females at 20 cm TL; birth size at ca. 10 cm TL. It is reported to be locally abundant as many individuals have been collected together in a single trawl (Ref. 114953).

Ciclo de vida ou comportamento de acasalamento Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas

There are indications that this species is ovovivipar (Ref. 57911).

Referência principal Upload your references | Referências | Coordenador : Carvalho, Marcelo | Colaboradores

Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.), 2003. Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of March 2003. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in March 2003. (Ref. 46206)

Status na Lista Vermelha da UICN (Ref. 130435)

Vulnerável, ver Livro Vermelho da UICN (VU) (A2d); Date assessed: 01 July 2019

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Ameaça para os humanos

Harmless

Uso pelos humanos

Pescarias: sem interesse

Benthobatis kreffti Rincón, Stehmann & Vooren, 2001